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Examples of trope in a Sentence

a screenplay that reads like a catalog of mystery-thriller tropes

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There’s the trope of the grieving mother cradling the dead son that recalls a Pietà, the wailing grandmother with her arms spread, like a Crucifixion, the hero rescuing his family, like Aeneas at Troy.

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